Pure-data: Pd on Windows should should use different paths for 32 and 64 bit binaries

[danomatika]

(Bringing this in from the pd-dev list.)

Pd should install to and use different paths on Windows for 32 and 64 bit:

• on a 32 bit system: %Program Files%
• on a 64 bit system:
  
  
  
  • 32 bit: %Program Files (x86)%
  
  
  • 64 bit: %Program Files%
  
  

These paths should be used for the settings file location, in the registry, and by the installer.

This probably involves changes to src/s_file.c, tcl/pd_guiprefs.tcl, and the msw/build-nsis.sh installer script

[Lucarda]

Do you want to start a [WIP] PR?

Here are some things i collected:

Change occurrences of!define PRODUCT_NAME "Pure Data" to "Pure Data 32-bit" /"Pure Data 64-bit"/ in pd32.nsi / pd64.nsi

Change occurrences of "$SMPROGRAMS\Pd" (start menu) with"$SMPROGRAMS\Pd 32-bit" "$SMPROGRAMS\Pd 64-bit" in pd32.nsi / pd64.nsi

Change occurrences of Pd.lnk to Pd 32-bit.lnk in pd32.nsi

Change occurrences of Pd.lnk to Pd 64-bit.lnk in pd64.nsi

Change occurrences of "$PROGRAMFILES\Pd" to "$PROGRAMFILES64\Pd" in pd64.nsi

$PROGRAMFILES64 is explained --> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#varuser

[mxa]

Related question in https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/469 : Should Pd-Single and Pd-double share the same preferences? If not, should Pd-32 and Pd-64?

[danomatika]

I'm not going to be able to do anything major on this right now. I'm mainly cleaning up bug fixes we worked on last week and I need to do some actual work/work this week.

[Lucarda]

I went ahead and started a #476 a WIP PR.

[Lucarda]

We can close this.
It was fixed in #476.